Table of Contents

 I. THE PRESENT: GLOBALIZATION, PSYCHOLOGY, AND HISTORY.

 1. Contemporary Psychology: Global Forces.

 2. Psychology: The American Approach.

 3. Nature of History and Methods of Study.

II. EARLY PHILOSOPHICAL AND BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENTIFIC PSYCHOLOGY.

 4. Philosophical Foundations of Psychology.

 5. Biological Foundations of Psychology.

 6. Phrenology, Mesmerism, and Hypnosis.

 7. Associationism.

III. SCHOOLS OF PSYCHOLOGY.

 8. Voluntarism and Structuralism.

 9. Functionalism.  

10. Behaviorism.

11. Gestalt Psychology.     

12. Psychoanalysis.

13. Beyond Psychoanalysis: Continuing Developments in Psychotherapy.

IV. DIVERSITY IN PSYCHOLOGY.

14. Women in Psychology.     

15. Racial Diversity in Psychology.     

16. Psychology in Russia.     

17. Psychology in China.

18. Indigenous Psychologies: Latin America, South Africa, and India-Asia.

V. EPILOGUE.

Name Index.

Subject Index.

About the Author

Robert B. Lawson is Emeritus Professor at the University of Vermont, USA.